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LLNL/RPI Supercomputer Smashes Simulation Speed Record

Posted by timothy on from the in-a-world-of-make-believe dept.

Lank writes "A team of computer scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have managed to coordinate nearly 2 million cores to achieve a blistering 504 billion events per second, over 40 times faster than the previous record. This result was achieved on Sequoia, a 120-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q normally used to run classified nuclear simulations. Note: I am a co-author of the coming paper to appear in PADS 2013."

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  1. rPi is different from RPI by stewsters · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was i the only one who thought for a second that this was about a raspberry pi cluster?

    1. Re:rPi is different from RPI by DrData99 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes.

  2. Re:Simulation of what? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, those events are Who. Simulating is How. What is calculated.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  3. Re:Simulation of what? by flayzernax · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cats.